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ˈwater-wave, n.
1. lit. A wave of water.
c1560? Coverdale Treat. Death i. ix. 35 Like as one water waue foloweth vpon another. 1603J. Davies (Heref.) Microcosm. (Grosart) 91/1 Shee stood, as if she stood vpon no ground, But on some water-waue that made her bound. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 529 Bankes formerly raised against the waterwaves then in-rushing. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 340/1 From the engines water-waves are gushing.
2. A seismic wave in the sea.
1877Huxley Physiogr. 188 If the centre of disturbance is near the sea, the water-waves may be far more destructive than the earth-waves.
3. A mode of dressing the hair in flattened scallops on the forehead. orig. U.S.
1882Harper's Mag. Nov. 877/2 She is pasting down her wetted hair into a semblance of the ‘water-waves’ of fashionable society. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. 1911Webster. 1923E. F. Wyatt Invis. Gods i. i. 7 His grandmother..bending over him her water waves and pearl powder. 1958J. Cannan And be a Villain i. 5 Passing a clean white hand over the water-waves of his naturally fuzzy hair. 1972Vogue June Special 68/2 Hair in sleek water waves, by Jean Louis David, Paris.
Hence ˈwater-wave v. trans., to set (hair), with water, in waves; ˈwater-waved ppl. a., having a wave-like pattern or changing gloss; also of hair: set, with water, into waves.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 3 Last, Easterne wittes from mane of Camels tall Made water-waued stuffe vnseene before. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. lii. (1844) II. 143 The agates are many of them peculiarly beautiful, most of them water-waved. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxviii. 453 She readjusted a water-waved lock of hair. 1962E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lxvii. 513 A little girl with large saucy black eyes and beribboned hair her mother must have water-waved. 1975J. Gores Hammet (1976) xix. 130 Goodie had spent a dollar..to have her blond ringlets water-waved by Georgia. |